The Earth, as seen from Voyager 1, 1990
“That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.”
- Carl Sagan
Happy Earth Day, my fellow humans.
Sagan is absolutely right, as huge as our problems are, we are still but a mere speck of dust in this vast universe. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t take care of our precious piece of dust— it is, after all, the only one we’ve got.
I hope everyone did at least a little something this weekend to take care of our dying planet, it’s the least we can do to make up for the other 364 days we trash the place. We must, every day, combat the endless War on our tortured Terra being waged by the Bush Administration.
Here’s what I did, along with Mary Jo Kilroy, fellow members of World Can’t Wait, Columbus 9/11 Truth, and many others around Columbus. Thanks to Gen. Bruce for the video.
0 Response to “Happy Earth Day”